colonist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti

Proto-Italic *kʷelō

Latin colō

Latin colōnus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin colōniader.

Middle English colane

English colon(y)

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English colonist

From colon(y) + -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlənɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlənɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: col‧o‧nist

Noun

colonist (plural colonists)

1. A founder of a colony.

   Synonym: colonizer

   Hypernym: colonialist

2. A member of a colony.

   Synonym: colonizer

   Hypernym: colonialist

Derived terms

• anticolonist

Translations

founder of a colony

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: колонист m (kolonist), колонистка m (kolonistka)
• Catalan: colonitzador m, colonitzadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殖民者 (zh) (zhímínzhě)

• Danish: kolonist c
• Dutch: kolonist (nl) m
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi)
• French: colonisateur (fr) m, colonisatrice (fr) f
• Galician: colonizador m, colonizadora f
• German: Kolonist (de) m, Kolonistin (de) f, Kolonisator (de) m, Kolonisatorin f
• Greek: άποικος (el) m or f (ápoikos)

  Ancient Greek: ἄποικος m (ápoikos)

• Hebrew: מתיישב m (mityashév)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: gyarmatosító (hu)
• Indonesian: kolonis (id), penjajah (id)
• Italian: colonizzatore (it) m, colonizzatrice f
• Japanese: 開拓者 (ja) (かいたくしゃ, kaitakusha), 入植者 (ja) (にゅうしょくしゃ, nyūshokusha)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: (New Latin) colōnus m, colōna f, colōnistus m, colōnista f
• Marathi: वसाहतकार m (vasāhatkār)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolonist m

  Nynorsk: kolonist m

• Polish: kolonista (pl) m, kolonistka (pl) f, osadnik (pl) m, osadniczka f
• Portuguese: colonizador (pt) m, colonizadora (pt) f, colono (pt) m, colona f
• Romanian: colonist (ro) m, colonistă (ro) f
• Russian: колони́ст (ru) m (koloníst), колони́стка (ru) f (kolonístka), поселе́нец (ru) m (poselénec), поселе́нка (ru) f (poselénka), колониза́тор (ru) m (kolonizátor)
• Spanish: colono (es) m, colona (es) f, colonizador (es) m, colonizadora (es) f
• Swedish: nybyggare (sv) c, kolonisatör (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: వలసపోయిన వాఁడు (valasapōyina vān̆ḍu)

member of a colony

• Asturian: colonu m
• Catalan: colon (ca) m, colona (ca) f
• Esperanto: koloniano
• French: colon (fr) m
• Galician: colono m
• Greek: άποικος (el) m or f (ápoikos)

  Ancient Greek: ἄποικος m (ápoikos)

• Hebrew: מתיישב m (mityashév), מתנחל m (mitnakhél)
• Indonesian: kolonis (id)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolonist m

  Nynorsk: kolonist m

• Polish: kolonista (pl) m, kolonistka (pl) f, osadnik (pl) m, osadniczka f
• Portuguese: colono (pt) m
• Spanish: colono (es) m, colona (es) f

Anagrams

• coin slot, coin-slot, coinslot, locsiton, stolonic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kolonist. By surface analysis, colonie +‎ -ist.

Noun

colonist m (plural coloniști, feminine equivalent colonistă)

1. colonist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	colonist	colonistul	coloniști	coloniștii
genitive-dative	colonist	colonistului	coloniști	coloniștilor
vocative	colonistule		coloniștilor